How Teaching Healthy Sexuality Can Help Your Child Against the Predator, the Pressuring Partner, and the Prude
By Lea Grover Ms. Grover is a successful blogger and author whose blog has been featured in Huffington Post. www.chicagonow.com/becoming-supermommy. The Predator: At the earliest possible age, we need to talk to our children about sex. During diaper changes, singing,...
Intimacy Education Vs Sex Education
By Julia Bernards I was disgusted. Sitting in that plastic chair at a group desk with several boys, I’d just been subjected to a lesson on the mechanics of sex in our Home Ec class. I was assiduously avoiding eye contact with the snickering boys, and wondering if the...
Three Mistakes I’ve Made Using Shame and Guilt
By Jenny Webb, MA Let’s imagine, for a moment, that you came upon me in the park, where I was watching my child. She’s nine years old and generally a fairly responsible and cheerful child. But here, in this imaginary scenario, let’s say that she accidentally pushed...
Sex Ed Isn’t Just for Kids
By Julia Bernards Sex. How does the word strike you? The connotations of that simple three-letter word are profoundly personal, intensely inter-personal and seriously socially manipulated. Our experiences with sex–from first childhood inklings to full adult...
